Chapter430:

###Chapter 430 LUMINA There was no floor beneath me, and yet I was standing. That was the first wrong thing. The second was the color of the world—or the lack of it. Everything around me was gray, but not the gray of fog or stone. It was the gray of nothing. Like someone had erased the world and forgotten to draw it back in. "Where am I?" My voice came out smaller than I wanted. "Somewhere between," Janice said. She was there suddenly, though I hadn't seen her arrive. She looked the same as she had in my dying moment six months ago—tall, still, her eyes holding centuries I couldn't count. She didn't look cruel. That was the worst part. She looked almost kind. "Between what?" I asked. "Between what was and what will be," she said. "It's easier to talk here. No distractions. No pack bonds pulling at you. No heartbeat to worry about." My hand went to my chest without thinking. No heartbeat. She was right. I couldn't feel it beating at all, and the panic that should have come with that rea